In The World Quotes

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities.

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.